<b>"You need 10k followers before videos pop."</b>

<b>"You need 10k followers before videos pop."</b>

This persists because big accounts post hits and small ones don't — so followers look like the prerequisite. Correlation isn't causation: the accounts that grew did so <i>by</i> making videos that popped, not after crossing a threshold.

The mechanism: cold FYP distribution ignores follower count almost entirely in the initial test pool. Zero-follower accounts go viral weekly. Followers are downstream of reach, never upstream.

What's true: follower count is a scoreboard, not an engine. A 200-follower account and a 200k one enter the same test gate. Stop waiting for a number to unlock something that was never locked.